Super Sloppy Joes and Some Sludge

Thought I would drop in and show off a few of my eats/cooks from the last few days. Here's my fruit cereal from this morning...

• half a mango
• whole kiwi
• giant banana
• cinnamon
• NuNaturals Stevia (packet)
• almond butter
  

I have been sticking with tons of fruit every morning since trying the raw/combining detox. That was just one of my many morning bowls :).

I picked this fresh from my garden the other day...
Which in turn produced these...
Yumma delicious and crispy...
I ate that along with a salad for lunch yesterday and my new favorite hummus dressing...

Its Trader Joe's Tahini Free and properly combined :)

For dinner I made pizza for the man and the little one using Trader Joe's ww crust, chicken, leftover roasted potatoes, pizza seasoning and lots of mozzarella....
I ate some AMAZING leftover Tex Mex Turkey Sloppy Joe over a bed of zucchini "noodles" with fresh steamed green beans and brussel sprouts...
Lunch today was a huge ass, juicy portabella sandwich on Ezek...

This x2

Snack...
Another snack...
The sludge above is Averie's Raw Vegan Brownie Recipe. I didn't measure but threw in about 8 dates, 1/4 cup walnuts, dark chocolate cocoa powder a few squeezes of agave, and NuNaturals Vanilla Stevia (good stuff by the way). This was supposed to last a few days. But by accident the little one and I finished it off on one sitting. Man Averie, I don't if I can make this stuff anymore. It is that good!! Averie has a Vitamix so hers looks a bit different. My measly blender didn't make it as pretty but I can assure you it didn't effect the taste!!

TEX MEX TURKEY SLOPPY JOES with Corn & Peppers
Serves 6

• 1 ear fresh corn
• 8oz. extra lean ground turkey breast
• 1 red bell pepper, diced
• 1 yellow bell pepper, diced
• 1 large red onion, diced
• 4 tsp chili powder
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1/4 tsp sea salt
• 2 medium tomatoes, diced
• 1 cup low sodium chicken broth
• 1 tbsp. no salt added tomato paste
• 2 tsp. low sodium soy sauce
• ww buns/bread
• 1 tbsp arrowroot powder dissolved in 2 tbsp cold water (I omitted)
• 1/2 cup low fat jack cheese, shredded

1. Cut kernels off cob and set aside
2. In a large skillet, cook turkey. Add peppers and cook about 2 min. Add onion and cook about 4 min. Add chile powder, garlic powder, and salt, cook 1 min. Stir in tomatoes, corn, broth, tomato paste and soy sauce, increase heat and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook for 20 min.
   
3. Add arrowroot mixture to sloppy joe mixture and stir until sauce thickens.
   
4. Serve on buns and top with cheese.

Here's the mans...
Extra sloppy because I didn't have arrowroot. But it was also extra delicious!! There are so many things you can do with this. I think adding beans would make an awesome chili and it worked great over my zucchini noodles!! I know it was a lot of ingredients but it was super simple to throw together. Thank you CLEAN EATING MAG!!!

CONFESSION OF THE DAY: I feel bad for my fam. on days I feel like I have over eaten because I never end up making dinner on those days for some reason and they are left to fend for themselves. Today for example, too much raw brownie sludge = no dinner for fam.

Weekend Update

Hey guys :). I am here to recap my relaxing weekend with some of my eats and activities. I will start with eats. Here are some of my snacks...
That is some delicious carrots and honey and a half drunk glass of frozen chocolate milk all enjoyed together after Friday nights dinner.

My ants were Saturdays post boat snack.

Most of my breakfasts have been fresh fruit "cereal"....

• 1 peach
• 1 banana
• blueberries
• almond milk
• almond butter

• lots of banana
• 1 peach
• strawberries
• almond milk
• almond butter

And fresh fruit on its own...
...while catching up on my shows :)

Lunches have been nice and carby with lots of salads...
Salad with fresh garden green beans and lots of guac "dressing" and a side of oats with coconut butter....
Talk about some healthy fats! The oats were sweetened to perfection with my new NuNaturals Stevia.

Salad with hummus "dressing", and an opened face grilled portabella mushroom sandwich on sprouted bread with slices of avo....
Mmmm. My favorite lunch of the weekend.

Dinners have consisted mostly of protein...

Big ole salad topped with chicken, portabella and lots of hot salsa.

That corn was pretty odd. Don't ya think...
Dessert has been mostly this...

73% Dark

83% Dark

I also made the man his first banana soft serve with raw chocolate sauce...

We also chilled on the lake. Just us and the little one...
And I tended to my garden...

I've got 3 of these babies!!

Hope everyone had a just as fun and relaxing weekend as I did. My detox/food combining is going great so far now that I have taken a few steps back.

CONFESSION OF THE DAY: (sorry if there are any guys reading this) My bikini line is outta control!! The weird thing is it is only on one side. Even if I shave it you can still see it under the skin. Do any of you have any bikini line advice? Waxing? or other methods that have worked for you? Much appreciated!!!

P.S. Have any of you ever seen the show 1,000 Ways To Die? That shizzzz is cuhrayzeeeee!!!!

????Mystery Meal????

Day two of detox went alright. I was much hungrier yesterday than I was the first day. Especially in the afternoon. Lunch was some what of an odd combo...
Anyone who can guess the ingredients or the most ingredients in this I will send a prize. Maybe some pb or something if your lucky and I can afford it. Sorry HEABS your out. You already know. I will give you another look...
I also had a salad which I ate first by the way, just in case you were wondering...

• romaine
• spinach
• zucchini
  
• red pepper
• cucumber
• mushrooms
• carrots
• tomatoes
  
• corn
• balsamic
• Annie's lite ginger dressing

Lunch dessert...
I only had that 1 square.

Somewhere in between all this my oldest niece who got her license that morning came by to show off..

$20 to anyone who can guess what show is on the tv in the back. Ok I wont give you any money but that would be pretty impressive :)

A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by NuNaturals to test out their products and I was elated when my doorbell rang and I found these goodies in the box...

The nice people of NuNaturals sent me tons of good stuff plus a plethora of info and even some recipes...


Afternoon snack...

It ended up being a carrot and raisin sandwich...
I think I got a little carried away because I am not used to eating raisins because of the sugar count. Lets just say the little raisins ended up floating in the big jar of almond butter and they needed a big spoon to come and rescue them :). Ugh, felt a little bloated afterward :(.

Dinner was a veggie stir-fry. Apparently cooked veggies are embraced by some raw foodists. Who knew...

• red pepper
• zucchini
• onion
• yellow squash
• garlic cloves chopped
• mushrooms
• soy sauce
• balsamic vinegar
• carrot
  
• chicken
  
• served over spinach

Went back for more dark chocolate later. Sometime later I also made my version of "frozen
chocolate milk"....

• 1 cup uvam
• NuNaturals cocoa bean extract drops
• Nunaturals clear stevia
• heaping spoonful of Hershey's dark choc. cocoa
• ice
  

I tasted it and it didn't quite have that sweet chocolaty taste I was looking for so I added a few drops of Now Dark Chocolate Stevia and that made it perfect!! I also had about a 1/3 of a piece of raw corn.

Kicked it with "Gym" this morning and did lots of lifting and thrusting followed by some heavy breathing and lots of sweat. Shhh, Don't tell my husband.

Now I have almost polished off this ginormous bowl...
Singing off, I am about to pee on myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CONFESSION OF THE DAY: I am totally fixing to cheat on my hairstylist of about 8 years. I feel like shes to comfortable with me and is to "safe" with me. Like when I tell her to do something she doesn't "all the way" do it because maybe she is scared I wont like it or I'll be mad at her. Does that make sense? I need someone new who will take more risks!! haha

Jumping On But Not Convinced

I am not usually one to fall into trends or jump on the bandwagon (you can hear the "but" coming from a mile away) but this time its a little different. I am sure most of you have seen this Raw Food Detox crap floating around and this whole food combining crock. I have to tell you I am pretty skeptical but I did jump on the band wagon yesterday. It really all makes my head spin and pulls my panties up my crack but I am going to give it a go only because I have a "special event" coming up in a few weeks and I want to be looking my best. I am not going to go into great detail about it because right now I only plan on doing it up until the event. I just wanted to for-warn because my eats are probably going to be a little wacky.

Breakfast yesterday pretty much lasted until lunch. I went to visit my guy "Gym", came home, ate an apple and then had this ginormous bowl of fruit...
After peeing 15 times from the watermelon the little one and I headed off to a free movie for kids at a local theater. Before going to the theater I picked up a huge bag of grapes and a few boxes of blueberries to smuggle in. I honestly think most of these moms use this time as an excuse to shove as much chocolate, candy, 120 oz Icees, and trans fat butter filled popcorn down their faces as possible. It made me feel good that the little one and I were content munching on blueberries and grapes :).

This was my lunch...

Can you see my 2 little homegrown green beans in there?

Followed by this...
Oat bran, coconut butter and the few chia seeds you see were an accident and a no no. Opps!!

Afternoon snack....
Those are romaine wraps, carrot sticks, broccoli and almond butter. Mmmm. I had more almond butter with the left over carrot sticks. Close up of the goodness..
After my snack I started getting ready for my girls night. This time it me and my other stay at home mama friend. We were first timers at a restaurant called Mad Donnas. We both started with some wine...

I ordered the Sweet potato enchilada with green beans....
Kim got the Thai curry salmon...
We shared and I totally broke my food combining rules. It was preplanned though.

We thought about staying for "Drag" bingo or maybe heading next door to the Lipstick Lounge but the party animals that we are we decided to go the grocery store...
Nothing like the produce aisle after a few drinks. Had a great time Kim!! We need to do it more often!

**EDITED TO ADD: Kim's hubby said this reminded him of us. I was laughing my ass off. You have to watch it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soRz8ehtstY&feature=related

This morning I slept in and I have been munching on fruit in between bathroom breaks. Heres my first bowl...

• 1 whole peach
• 1 giant banana
• strawberries
• grapes

CONFESSION OF THE DAY: I totally stare at other people carts and analyze them while I am at the grocery store. Watch out I might be looking at yours!! haha